An East/West meeting of harsh noise heavyweights that Dada Drumming assembled in a brilliant move, showcasing two distinct styles of sonic inferno from Japan's Incapacitants and Texas's Black Leather Jesus. Most of the Dada Drumming stuff that we've picked up has been short, vicious little 7"s of extreme noise and this is one of the few full length Cds on the label, presented with dark black and white imagery, photos of a cemetery on the front and back, and simple black and white band pics inside the booklet, assembled into a cool understated package. Sound wise, each artist offers a colossal slab of harsh electronic noise that takes up approximately half the disc.

Black Leather Jesus is up first with the eighteen minute "Shelter". At first, it's an acerbic storm of mid-range frequencies and crackling garbled distortion, fluttering low end and harsh scraping feedback, all murky and muffled sounding. But then it suddenly explodes into high fidelity, knocking you back in your chair as Ramirez and co. unleash a roaring bass-heavy blast furnace of extreme electronic chaos. From that point onward, the group shifts through constantly morphing masses of squirming stuttering feedback, blasts of high end trebly skree, surging waves of bone-shaking bass rumble, the distortion continuously changing in speed and texture, shifting into droning organ-like walls of melodic buzz, sputtering jets of black magma, swirling oceanic expanses of murky blackened drift, at times vast and bleak and blasted, but constantly progressing and always crushing. It's a fearsome black storm of psychedelic harsh noise abuse.

One of the few bands that could follow such an avalanche, Incapacitants follow with their own massive thirty minute piece "Yellow Silk Buddha", an epic saga of scrap metal pandemonium. It's a monolith of shrieking feedback bent into massive walls of orchestral sound, deep rumbling drones shaking the earth beneath the buzzing amplifiers and metal-on-metal carnage transmitted through contact mics. Huge thunderous drones thrum through the chaos, amid slow moving symphonic blasts of harsh psychedelic noise, hellish howling vocals, and infinite avalanches of iron pipes. A wall of nuclear distortion, structured into a complex, layered maelstrom of machine obliteration that climbs upwards through new levels of evolution and destruction.

An essential harsh noise album for fans of either group.